ACA opens registration for 2025 and enters the 2024 race

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Open enrollment begins Friday, November 1 for 2025 health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. About 21 million people currently get health insurance through the ACA, or Obamacare, although the upcoming presidential election “could jeopardize eligibility and increase costs for millions of those in the program,” according to the Associated Press.

The “future of ‘Obamacare’ has emerged as a key issue in the final days of the presidential campaign,” the AP said, after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said “no Obamacare” during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Monday. . He promised that “massive reform” of the ACA would be “a big part of the agenda” if Donald Trump wins and Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives.

Kamala Harris pointed out these comments yesterday at a rally in Reno, Nevada, that “Donald Trump still wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act,” and if he wins “they would kick millions of Americans off health insurance and take us back” to the past that “insurance companies have the ability to deny people with pre-existing conditions.” Trump said on social media that he “never said he would do that, never even thought about doing that.”

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